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Honest John test launch. Developed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, the Honest John was a large but simple fin-stabilized, unguided artillery rocket weighing 5,820 pounds (2,640 kg) in its initial M31 nuclear-armed version.
M31 signal corps repair, GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck; ... 5-ton 6 x 6 (G744), Honest John (note – for vehicle mounted rocket launchers see List of U.S. Army rocket ...
M31 HEAT rifle grenade; M31 Recovery Vehicle based on the M3 Lee tank; M31 rocket, an alternate designation for the MGR-1 Honest John, a United States military rocket; M31 (missile), for a multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) M31 is the pennant number for HMS Cattistock, a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel
M31; M32 rocket launcher, 4.5 inch, trailer mount; M33 rocket launcher, trailer mount, for MGR-1 Honest John; M34 rocket launcher, for MGR-3 Little John; M35;
The Honest John was a short-range surface-to-surface tactical ballistic rocket used by the US Army. Three yield variants, also apparently 2, 20 and 40 kilotons, were deployed on Honest John missiles from 1959 to 1987. A total of 1,650 Honest John W31 warheads were produced. [3]
DoD video showing MGR-3 Little John in army-testing in 1957, including transport by CH-37 helicopter. Carried on the XM34 rocket launcher, it could carry either nuclear or conventional warheads. It was primarily intended for use in airborne assault operations and to complement the heavier, self-propelled MGR-1 Honest John rocket.
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
MGR-1 Honest John nuclear-capable rocket; HIMARS self-propelled Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF). [18] [19] [20] Coastal artillery. 3-inch gun M1903; 5-inch gun M1897; 6-inch gun M1897; 8-inch M1888; 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun; 10-inch gun M1895; 12-inch coast defense mortar; 12-inch gun M1895; 14-inch gun ...